MeteorPunch
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What are the techs that have a chance of giving the SGL?
SGL Techs...
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Tomoyo
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Any one that you get before anyone else.
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MeteorPunch
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Really? Can someone confirm this (not that I doubt you Tomoyo 
)? I was under the eimpression certain ones like Republic, writing (more intellectual, non-warfare) were designated for this...
I hardly ever get SGL's past the ancient age and I believed this was why/
)? I was under the eimpression certain ones like Republic, writing (more intellectual, non-warfare) were designated for this...I hardly ever get SGL's past the ancient age and I believed this was why/
Tomoyo
Fate
Well, the human is more likely to get Republic and Writing before the AI (because the AI researches the other techs first), so you are, in that sense, more likely to get a SGL from those.
Beorn-eL-Feared
Idiot riding pedals
The only ones you really are less likely to get a SGL from are early ancient age techs, because AI's will usually beat you to a lot of them. But it is 3% per first-researched tech you get, to the best of my knowledge (only thing I'm not totally positive about is the 3%).
MeteorPunch
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Alrighty then. I guess I heard too many people at the HoF talking about "popping a SGL from ____ tech" that I thought there was certain techs that caused SGL's.
Tomoyo
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They just pick the cheap techs that can pop easy SGLs...
The HOF tactic isn't quite that simple. In addition to selecting the designated SGL tech, the AI has to be stacked in such a way that none of them start with the specified tech. This also has to be balanced with another typical HOF tactic, being that of selecting eight Scientific AI's.Tomoyo said:
After all that, then you get the fun of going through maps one at a time, playing each until that tech is complete just to find out if you get an SGL.
MeteorPunch
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The way some of them play over there is *really* competitive. I certainly couldn't play that way.
...Off to start the "n00b HoF"
Not everyone in the HOF plays that way. A lot of players just drop in to play a game to fill an empty slot. There's not much competition on those.MeteorPunch said:...Off to start the "n00b HoF"
Tomoyo
Fate
Hey, I tried to just drop one in, and it just happened that two other people also tried to get the slot in the same update, and now space is after the slot. 
Well, I was speaking about empty slots in general. Since Quartermaster's Challenge rankings are based primarily on HOF game rankings, people are targetting the #1 slots like there's no tomorrow. It's the other nine per table that usually stay free.Tomoyo said:Hey, I tried to just drop one in, and it just happened that two other people also tried to get the slot in the same update, and now space is after the slot.
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MeteorPunch said:The way some of them play over there is *really* competitive. I certainly couldn't play that way.
...Off to start the "n00b HoF"
and exactly the reason that I stay away from HOF and GOTM. Competition inherently encourages cheats and exploits.
Scuffer
Scuffer says...
To get anywhere near the top you effectively have to play the game in a very specific way, and try and get that extra 0.1% over your rivals. Fine if that's your thing, but ICSing to the dom limit and MMing it really doesn't appeal. Still, if some people enjoy it...
Scuffer
Scuffer says...
So there are. Well, if I ever manage a sufficiently worthy performance, maybe I'll submit after all.
